TweetyBird
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Lol...So when He instructs prayers be said that fleeing during the time of trouble not be on the Sabbath He was actually making it impossible for them to flee at all...since now Sabbath is every day...
Every day is not the Sabbath Day - only the 7th day and the feast days that require Sabbaths. Jesus was referring to the physical Mosaic Law Sabbath, not Himself. We have perfect and continuing rest and peace in Him - what happens on the days of the week cannot change that.
Jesus was not referring to anything positive about the Sabbath. He was saying that if flight was required and it happened on the Sabbath Day, they would not be aware of it and could not flee. Same with winter - if they were required to leave but could not because of the weather. It was an analogy - to be prepared. Apparently, the trib hit anyway and Jerusalem was destroyed and over a million Jews murdered, including those in surrounding areas.
Of course the Jews were still keeping the Sabbath - it was part of their religion. The only reason the disciples went to the syn on Sat was to preach Christ.
Matt 24
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand 16 then let them which be in Judæa flee into the mountains: 17 let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: 21 for then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.